Subject: Re: automatic response upon receiving mail?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 19:09:49 -0500

On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Dwight Wilkins wrote:

> 		A user recently asked how to have pine automatically 
> reply to pine, the example was if the user is on gone for an extended 
> time, the sender would receive a message that the user will be back in a 
> month, etc.  How exactly would 	I do this?

    Pine will not do this.  It is not designed to.  Your user needs to
invoke some facility which will do this _before_ Pine enters the
picture, as part of the mail delivery process.  How to do it will vary
according to what operating the incoming mail will be processed on. 
For Un*x systems, you can use .vacation or procmail.

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From: Allen R Sparks <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jan 1997 16:12:12 -0900

Dwight Wilkins <[email-masked]> writes:

> 	PGP key:
> nyuknyuknyuknyukwoowoowoowoonarffiorddohhyukwe'rezanytothemaxetcetcetc

There are programs out there that work on unix systems.  Digital Unix
comes with a program called "vacation" (I don't know how "generic" it
is) that will automatically reply to a message.  Pine itself does not
have that function, and can't since, to my knowledge, pine is not
programmed to run as a daemon.
  === Al